The Afghans Understand.....

[Minimalist]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2012110...H5PG1.html

Many are driven by a certainty that the Taliban will return, and that there will be reprisals.

"From our baker to our electrician to our plumber, everyone was engaged with the foreign troops and so they are all targets for the Taliban. And unless the government is much stronger, when the foreign troops leave, that is the end," Khan said.

Our entire involvement in Afghanistan has been little more than doing CPR on a corpse.

[5thHorseman]

Would've been different if Iraq hadn't happened. Taliban were down and out until Dubya stretched the forces too far.

[Stanley]

Yup, two needless illegal occupations. Many many thousands of coalition forces killed or disabled for nothing, many millions of locals killed/murdered/displaced because of illegal occupation.

Iraq and Afghanistan are in a worse place now after the invasions, Iran is next, it will be a tougher test for the brain washed westerners, but, Iran is next I am sorry to say.